Lottery Winners

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Scottish Family Win £1M in EuroMillions New Year Special

January 10th, 2013

Barry and Roberta Little from Dumfries have joined the list of £1 Million winners in the UK’s New Year special EuroMillions draw.

And the win could not have arrived at a better time.

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Kansas Winner Had To Borrow Car To Claim Win

January 9th, 2013

The house painter in his 40’s didn’t have a car, so had to borrow one from a friend to be able to drive himself to the lottery headquarters in Topeka to claim his prize.

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Woman From De Queen Wins Powerball $2 Million

January 8th, 2013

Sherry Miller is the latest winner to come forward to claim her Powerball winnings.

Using the Power Play option Sherry doubled the usual $1 Million win for matching the 5 main balls up to a much nicer $2 Million.

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7-Eleven Stop Pays Larry $1 Million

January 7th, 2013

It was a brief stop for Larry King from Canton at his local Washington Street 7-Eleven.

But it turned out to be a great start to his New Year.

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Record Jackpot For Pensioner Of 83 In Bulgaria

January 6th, 2013

Bulgaria’s largest ever lottery jackpot has been won by 2 ticket holders.

The jackpot of BGN 9.5M, about US$6.3M, was a record for the Toto 2 – a popular 6 from 49 game in Bulgaria.

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Linda’s Normal Ticket Was Sold Out, So Her Husband Got Her One Worth $3M Instead

January 6th, 2013

Linda Metzger normally buys a $20 scratch off ticket, but when her husband Larry arrived at the store he discovered they had sold out of her favourite ticket.

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Two New Lottery Millionaires For Wisconsin

January 5th, 2013

Well, millionaires for 5 minutes at least as the tax office does of course step in and relieve US winners of a significant percentage of their prizes.

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Winners £137,000 Bentley Continental Write-Off In Floods

January 5th, 2013

Robert Johnson won £5 Million on the UK Lotto back in 2008.

And one of the very nice toys he treated himself to was a Bentley Continental worth £137,000.

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Dad Scratches Christmas Jackpot Thanks To His Son’s Present

January 4th, 2013

Rob Hoover buys his dad some scratch off lottery tickets for Christmas every year.

And this year he treated him to 10 ‘Carolina Black’ tickets.

Dad, Eddie, says he often dreams of winning the lottery – but this time his dream came true when one of the tickets turned out to be a $100,000 winner.

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£1M Boxing Day Birthday Present From EuroMillions

January 4th, 2013

Christmas Day created 25 new millionaires with a UK EuroMillions special draw.

And one of those has been revealed as Andrew Garth, 29, from Middlesbrough.

Andrew was actually hosting his boxing day birthday when he checked his ticket and discovered the fantastic news.

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